Mémoires de Guerre

Zeit published 19/08/2005 at 14:00 Uhr Vor 40 Jahren endete der Frankfurter Auschwitz-Prozess. Er veränderte das Land, doch die Urteile verbitterten viele. Ein Hintergrundbericht, gestützt auf Originaltexte der ZEIT aus den Jahren 1964 und 1965 Der ehemalige...

For two years, SS officer Oskar Gröning served in the Auschwitz concentration camp. He counted the money of dead Jews and stood guard as incoming freight trains unloaded their wretched human cargo. He says he didn't commit any crimes. For the past sixty...

A deceptively slender study of history’s most notorious killing ground. As German historian Steinbacher (Ruhr Univ., Bochum) observes, Auschwitz—known as Oswiecim in Polish—was a center of Galician Jewish life long before the rise of Nazism, with a 19th-century...

publiziert 11/08/2005 at 16:59 Uhr von Roman Heflik Er war einer von Hitlers gnadenlosesten Agentenjägern: Gestapo-Offizier Horst Kopkow war verantwortlich für die Festnahme, Folterung und Tötung von Hunderten Spionen und Widerstandskämpfern. Kurz nach...

Santiago — Lucia Hiriart, la femme du général Augusto Pinochet, a été mise hier en détention à Santiago ainsi que son fils cadet Marco Antonio pour «complicité de fraude fiscale» présumée, a-t-on appris de sources judiciaires. Mme Lucia Hiriart et son...

It remains one of Hollywood's most compelling, and unforgettable, mysteries. On Aug. 5, 1962, the body of Marilyn Monroe was found in the bedroom of her Brentwood home. The 36-year-old movie star was naked and facedown on her bed. An autopsy conducted...

published 04/08/2005 at 11.16 BST by Krysia Diver in Stuttgart Beaten by his father, the future dictator used to bully his sister Two historians yesterday acclaimed the discovery in Germany of a journal written by Adolf Hitler's sister, saying it offers...

“The best book about America’s first modern secret service.” - -Washington Post Book World. In the months before World War II, FDR prepared the country for conflict with Germany and Japan by reshuffling various government agencies to create the Office...

Oswald Mosley was Britain's failed Führer. His political career began brilliantly - he was the youngest MP of his day - but his attraction to fascism led him to found the notorious 'Blackshirts': the British Union of Fascists, secretly funded by Mussolini...

The Zodiac est un film américain ayant pour thème l'enquête autour du tueur du Zodiaque, tueur en série sévissant en Californie de 1966 à 1978. Ce film d'Alexander Bulkley est sorti sur les écrans américains en 2006 et directement sur format DVD en France....

Le procès du chef de la France de Vichy sous l'Occupation a commencé le 23 juillet 1945. Il a aboutit à une condamnation à mort, non exécutée. Le 23 juillet 1945 s'ouvrait à Paris le procès de Philippe Pétain, chef de la France de Vichy sous l'Occupation,...

Oskar Schindler was a man who enjoyed fast living. He liked to race motorcycles, and his wife thought he drank too much. Schindler joined the Nazi party to make money, and even became a spy for the promise of danger. After the Nazi invasion of Poland,...

publié le 25/07/2005 à 12h31 par Jean-François Augereau " LE NAVIGATEUR italien a débarqué dans le Nouveau Monde. " James Conant, chef du Comité de la recherche pour la défense nationale, tressaille en recevant au téléphone ce message énigmatique. " Comment...

La Main au collier ou Doit aimer les chiens au Québec (Must Love Dogs) est un film américain réalisé par Gary David Goldberg sorti en 2005. Sarah Nolan, une enseignante fraîchement divorcée, tente de retrouver le grand amour. Carol, une de ses sœurs entremetteuses,...

Central Registry Of War Criminals And Security Suspects. Wanted Lists. Soft Back Edition. CROWCASS is an acronym for Central Registry Of War Criminals And Security Suspects. Sixty years ago CROWCASS was established by the United Nations to trace ex-enemy...

Gifted actor who re-emerged as a stage director when her film fame faded. Long career ... Geraldine Fitzgerald pictured in 1983 When Geraldine Fitzgerald, who has died aged 91, directed her Tony-nominated production of Mass Appeal on Broadway in 1981,...

Il capo della P2 ha ricevuto un avviso di garanzia dai magistrati. romani per il delitto del banchiere nel 1982, a Londra. Interrogato l'ex venerabile: non sono stato io, mandanti in Polonia. Licio Gelli Roma - "Non sono certamente io il mandante. Roberto...

Geraldine Fitzgerald, a feisty, gravel-voiced Dublin redhead who drew instant acclaim in her first Hollywood films, including a 1939 Oscar nomination for "Wuthering Heights," before carving out a long, varied career in films, television, cabaret and theater,...

Actress | Director - Born Nov. 24, 1913 in Dublin, Ireland - Died July 17, 2005 in New York, NY. Actress Geraldine Fitzgerald was nominated for an Academy Award for her role in the 1939 film "Wuthering Heights" and rebelled against the Hollywood studio...

Lendemains de guerre - Mademoiselle se révolte - «Super 5» contre N° 5 - Le Yalta du parfum - Formalités à Mexico - Le dernier Noël de Paul - Embrouilles dans l'aéronautique - Deux Bernheim dans la maison - Haute couture et sac de légende - Coco et Pierre:...

Conservative prime minister who took Britain into Europe and served 51 years in the House of Commons Sir Edward Heath. Photograph: Jane Bown When Edward Heath, who has died aged 89, took Britain into the European Economic Community in 1971, it was the...

Included on the CIA's Official List of Recommended Books for INTELLIGENCE Reading. In the months before World War II, FDR prepared the country for conflict with Germany and Japan by reshuffling various government agencies to create the Office of Strategic...

Actress | Singer | Born Frances Newbern Langford on April 4, 1913 in Lakeland, FL, Died July 11, 2005 of congestive heart failure in Jensen Beach, FL Frances Langford - West side of the 1500 block of Vine Street Frances Langford, a 1930s and '40s singer...

L'Express publié le 11/07/2005 par Bruno Abescat et Yves Stavridès Premières heures de mai 1940. Pierre Wertheimer et l'avionneur Félix Amiot ont rendez-vous avec Paul chez Wolf, un restaurant à Pacy-sur-Eure. A écouter Félix, ils trouvent «un Paul Wertheimer...

The Jerusalem Post published 11/07/2005 at 15:03 Anthony Sawoniuk was the only person to be convicted of Nazi war crimes in a British court. An 84-year-old Nazi war criminal serving two life sentences for the murder of 18 Jews has died in a British jail,...

L'Express publié le 04/07/2005 par Christophe Barbier En politique, l'urgence ne date pas d'hier... Ainsi, le 29 juin 1937, soixante-huit ans avant Dominique de Villepin, Camille Chautemps, nommé président du Conseil en remplacement de Léon Blum, assortit...

published 04/07/2005 by Klaus Wiegrefe Heinrich Himmler starb 1945 in britischem Gewahrsam. Laut neuen Papieren, deren Echtheit nicht erwiesen ist, wurde der SS-Chef von den Engländern umgebracht. Der schmächtige Mann mit der Augenklappe in der abgerissenen...

Mario Prieto suivra une longue carrière diplomatique au sein du ministère des Affaires étrangères du Chili. A la suite du coup d'état de Pinochet, il commence, à Genève un "exil volontaire". Voyages en Chine, à New-York, en Grèce... La dictature terminée,...

« Non, je ne peux pas vous suivre, car moi j’ai signé l’armistice et j’honorerai ma signature. » Le Maréchal a parlé d’un ton ferme, qui n’admet pas de réplique. Son interlocuteur insiste pourtant : – Monsieur le Maréchal, permettez-moi de vous poser...

published 30/06/2005 at 09:44 by Action Desk Sheffield This story was submitted to the People's War site by Julie Turner of the BBC Radio Sheffield Action Desk on behalf of Barbara Beddow, and has been added to the site with her permission. The author...